The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on Effective Altruism, Engaged Buddhism, and How to Build a Better World by Chao-Hwei Shih
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on such issues as animal welfare, gender equality, the death penalty and more. An unlikely duo-Professor Peter Singer, a preeminent Australian philosopher and professor of b ...Show more
How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron
$37.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Discover newfound freedom in life's ever-constant flow of endings and beginnings with the wise words of Pema Ch dr n, beloved Buddhist nun and bestselling author of When Things Fall Apart_x200B_. New in paperback! x200Bx200B As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment-the end of ...Show more
How to Flourish An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing--the Nicomachean Ethics--in a lively new abridged translation Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish is a carefully a ...Show more
How to Do the Right Thing by Seneca
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Category: Philosophy and Religion
How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we’ve all felt that we haven’t been treated as we deserve-that we’ve been misjudged, short-changed, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that ...Show more
Great Minds on Small Things - The Philosophers Guide to Everyday Life by Matt Qvortrup
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; trans. Gregory Hays
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Modern Library Classics | Reading Level: very good
A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom, practical guidance, and profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. Marcus's insights and advice - on everything from living in the world to ...Show more
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Be ...Show more
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other?Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years ago, in a succes ...Show more
Peace Book: Teachings from the Greatest Minds of All Time by Editors of Cider Mill Press
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Trace the inspirational teachings of peace from some of the greatest minds of all time with The Peace Book."Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through hum ...Show more
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures by Robin Dunbar
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A fascinating analysis of the evolution of religion from the internationally renowned evolutionary psychologist When did humans develop spiritual thought? What is religion's evolutionary purpose? And in our increasingly secular world, why has it endured? Every society in the history of humanity has live ...Show more
Gravity And Grace by Weil Simone
$37.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la gr ce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In 1952 this English translation accelerated t ...Show more
Happiness Is Overrated: Simple Lessons on Finding Meaning in Each Moment by Cuong Lu
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Stop chasing happiness and reconnect to the meaning of each moment with this poignant guide, told through vignettes of life growing up as a Buddhist monk under the spiritual leader Thich Nhat Han.We spend so much time in pursuit of happiness-trying to purchase it, experience it, meditate our way toward ...Show more